Thursday, January 20, 2011

Magna Carta or "Great Charter"



Well here's a new one for ya'll (yes I feel like saying ya'll today)I'm getting Latin hw in my European History Class! My classmate and I have to translate the Magna Carta from its original latin to English. Although the translation didn't look TOO terribly hard. I won't say that the assignment is easy because my dad is my history teacher and he'll just pile on some more hw if we wanted. Not that we're asking for it!!!

Let me tell you some background info on the Magna Carta:

Well, King John(the dimwitted brother of Richard the Lionhearted,who really wasn't that all that great)finally pushed all of the royals to their limit. (He had even made the Pope curse him to "Hades") They met John on the south side of the Thames River on June 15th, 1215 and made him sign a document which stated the concept of Due Process, among other things. They made sure that John, much to his disbelief, understood that the king was not above the law after all. That document that Johnn signed was the Magna Carta, or the "Great Chart" in latin. This document was considered to be th basis of the U.S Constitution.

Congratulations, now you know more about what happened at Runnymede than 90%
of your peers! That was just a synopsis of what happened, but please write a comment with a specific question. I'd to hear from ya'll!(Yes, I still want to say ya'll!)

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